The Sweatpant Army

What's up with the Sweatpants? I took Alexander to visit my old university, show him a little of the place that helped form me. There were so many memories there of the lectures I attended, my brother, my excellent friends and my boyfriend. I really liked that time. If you just pictured everyone on campus in regular pants, it seemed like everything was the still the same. Look, I went to Boulder and Boulder still attracts the same people. The guys all have really crappy facial hair that signifies their oneness with the mountains and right to go camping. The girls all spend over $100 highlighted their hair, but still maintain the 'outdoorsy' vibe. Then, there's your usual legions of sorority and frat people. In my day those girls all wore tight black pants to the bars. This was before Seven jeans and the flip-flop craze. Everyone had tevas or NewBalance hiking sneakers. You know the ones.

Today: sweatpants. All kinds of sweatpants. There are matching-outfit sweatpants (usually pink), then the tight yoga-pant sweatpants. There are those sport-pant sweatpant with the addidas stripes down the side (for the men). I even saw capri sweatpants(for the ladies) AND someone who had pushed up their sweatpants to make capri sweatpants(a guy).

You know it is a lot harder to put on regular pants, right? And then it is so uncomfortable to sit for a whole hour and listen if you have pants with a button and a zipper. I know. It's nearly impossible to concentrate during exams if you can't break out into excercise the minute you hand in your blue book. Finally, it's important to maintain the illusion that at any moment, you might like to crawl back into bed and sleep, dude. I was so wasted last night.